Because Mike did these as a result of my provoking people over trigger warnings, with a lack of trigger warnings, by posting pictures of actual triggers, he even used my favorite gun in the whole wide world. (inside joke for those of you who’ve been reading this blog for a LONG time).

As to “Trigger Warnings,” well my tuppence of JIMHO, yes some people who have had traumatic events in their life can have flashbacks triggered by certain events. (An UK ex-services mental health charity once ran an fund-raising campaign, “The bravest man I ever knew, but now he can’t bear to turn a corner.”) And I think it’s good manners to prefix a panel at a con, or a fanfic with warnings that some people mind find the subject matter upsetting. (One author wrote a fanfic, based on personal experience, dealing with senile dementia in a parent. They posted a warning saying that some people might find this distressing, but they personally find it helpful to have written it.)

But . . .

When it turns into don’t say anything which anyone might just possibly find upsetting . . . and Neil Gaimen gets taken to task over a title and a cover blurb. -geez- What ever happen to having a little perspective?